PowerMath

Photographs and text describe how to understand and use variables while learning about some famous early flights including the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart.

Photographs, illustrations, and text describe how math was used to decipher coded messages throughout history.

Photographs, illustrations, and text describe the history of geometry from ancient to modern times; and profiles famous mathematicians including Pythagoras, Euclid, and Rene Descartes.

Photographs, illustrations, and text describe how math is used to create graphical representations of data while learning about the ecosystem in Denali National Park in south-central Alaska.

Provides an introduction to the Olympics, and offers an opportunity to work with percents and decimals through problems based on situations and events related to the history of the Olympic Games.

Provides an introduction to the art of the Islamic world, looks at the role of geometry in Islamic art, and demonstrates how circles, polygons, stars, symmetry, patterns, and tessellations can be used to mimic the style.

Provides information about different aspects of running an apple orchard and selling produce at the farmer's market, and looks at how math is used to help accomplish each of these tasks.

Introduces different types of hikes, describes what you can see on a hike, follows a one-mile hike, and explains how to convert fractions of walking distances to decimals.

Gives facts about familiar animals, such as how often a snake sheds its skin and how many pounds a baby blue whale gains in a week, and shows how to use multiplication to determine further information.

Presents a short study of the Hubble Space Telescope and how it works as well as an understanding the concept of numbers in the billions.